Would like to trade for: Purple Dragon Carrot Thyme: Rose Petal or Portugese Basil: Purple Ararat Mint: Mint Julep Tomatos: Black Cherry, Plum Lemon, Green Sausage. I have: Strawberry sticks Turnip - Purple top Turnip - Long White Kohlrabi - purple vienna Kohlrabi- early white vienna Squash- table queen Squash - straightneck early yellow Pumpkin - small sugar Broccoli - Calabrese Pepper - Green California Wonder Pepper - Corno di Toro - sweet Lettuce - iceburg Melon - Banana Melon Melon - Serpent Melon (5 seeds) Melon - Persian Melon (3 seeds) Melon - Kiwano Melon- Watermelon sugar baby Carrot - tendersweet Carrot -Danvers half long Radish- White Icicle Radish - purple plum Radish - Shogun Giant Soybean - green butterbean Radish - Early scarlet globe Onion - White lisbon Eggplant - black beauty Cumcumber- Marketmore Ground Cherry Tomato - Aunt Rubys Green Tomato - green zebra Tomitillo Chicory Peppermint Chamomile Bachelor Buttons Pink Poppy (giant) Collards

I don't know all the answers, but let me take a stab at this. First, as far as the Extension Services sheets go. A lot of these things are more geared toward farmers than home gardeners, even the ones that are supposed to be for home gardeners. I've lived in a number of different states, Indiana among them, and the quality of what you get from Extension services varies. If I believed everything I read, I'd never have given fruit trees a try at all. I've read that you can't grow them in your lawn, that they have to be sprayed repeatedly, etc. etc. I think part of the problem is that what might be an issue for a farmer is not for the home gardener. If I grow my fruit tree in the lawn (which I have, repeatedly), maybe I don't get as high a yield as I might otherwise have, but I don't need to have maximum yield. I just want to get a decent amount of tree-ripened fruit. The same goes for insecticides. I don't use those. Some of my fruit has bugs in it. There are several ways to handle this. One is just to cut out the part with the bug and eat the rest. Another is to have more than one kind of each tree, with different ripening times. When I lived in Fullerton, CA, I had one kind of peach tree that always had a lot of damage from bugs--so much so, in fact, that I didn't really ever get much usable fruit from it. But another kind of peach tree, whose fruit ripened a couple of weeks later, rarely had much damage. Another issue is that if you use too many chemicals, you kill off the good bugs that would have attacked the bad ones. One example of this is something I noticed on my roses. The aphids always seem to damage the first roses of the season, in whatever state I'm living in. But after that first bunch, the good bugs that like to eat aphids put in their appearance and help out bigtime. I imagine the same thing happens with the bugs that attack fruit trees. There is a website that you might find useful, http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/BOC_explained.html They show you how to plant a lot of fruit trees in a small amount of space, so that you get an extended harvest. Basically, it involves planting dwarf trees close together and pruning them in the summer, not just the winter, to keep their size manageable. That will help you to fit in more kinds of trees and hopefully get good fruit. I've gotten fruit trees from a lot of sources, including Bay Laurel Nursery, Raintree Nursery, Stark Bros., Miller Nursery, and One Green World. There's a certain amount of trial and error involved. I suppose there was for our ancestors, too. I've found some of my most useful information from various forums on gardenweb. Good luck to you, and happy gardening. Jennifer

kin, Sources that I know of are: newhopeseeds.com victoryseeds.com Here is a link that might be useful: Monicello gardens

Hi again. Country Gardens is amazing, too. Located near Ashippun, WI Take I-94 west to Hwy 16 N Drive to the end (runs into Oconomowoc), to the 2nd Hwy P exit (north). Go right on Hwy P to Hwy K. Take a left. Drive about 1\4-1\2 mile, take right on Mcmahon Rd. Drive for awhile(4 miles?), cross Hwy 67 (not labeled), cross Pennsylvania St. You should see a sign just past crossing. It is about 4 doors after Penn. St.on the left side. Large variety of perennials & grasses, absolutely beautiful plants. They have lovely display gardens, too. Near Decorah. IA, look for Willow Glen. Awesome!! Large variety of perennials--many hard to find, different types of willows for basket making. Beautiful garden layouts. ...and it is very close to the Seed Saver's place, just off the same road.